CCS First Grade Lighthouse Research Projects

My lighthouse is the Rockland Breakwater Light. It’s in Rockland, Maine. It was built in 1902. The materials it was made of are wood and brick. It’s 25 feet tall! The light flashes white every 5 seconds. It sends a fog signal every 15 seconds.

I’ll tell you what makes my lighthouse special. According to an entry on the “New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide” website ( http://lighthouse.cc/rocklandbreakwater/history.html) written by Jeremy D’Entremont, “[b]etween 1881 and 1899, a granite breakwater, almost a mile long, was built to help protect the harbor. The Bodwell Granite Company used 697,627 tons of granite for the project, which cost more than three quarters of a million dollars.”

What would it be like to live in my lighthouse? It would be hard to clean all of the stuff!! It is fun to watch the dolphins in the water! It would be hard to keep the lights burning and to polish the windows and the light. I would have to ride my bike to school, or walk. I could ride my bike to the beach. It would not be hard to walk up the stairs to the light. would like to live at Rockland Breakwater Light. In snowstorms, I would help my Dad scrape the ice off of the window. At midnight, I would check to see if the lights were burning. I would write in the logbook every day. It would be hard to live in a lighthouse, but it might be fun.

Source: http://lighthouse.cc/me.html

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14-May-2007